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pmd

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 26

Dracut + systemd-boot - increase root mounting timeout

Hey!

I've just done a clean Arch installation - systemd-boot as a bootloader, dracut for image generation (UEFI). My root partition is encrypted and I've set up the dracut-sshd for remote root decryption. Everything works great, except for the fact that after 90s I'm dropped into emergency shell which effectively blocks the boot process. I mean, I can still SSH into initramfs and provide a decryption key but the emergency shell is still blocking.

How can I completely disable emergency shell and tell systemd-boot to wait indefinitely for root partition?

Thanks

Last edited by pmd (2023-01-16 17:53:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Dracut + systemd-boot - increase root mounting timeout

Try adding rootwait to the kernel parameters.

pmd

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 26

Re: Dracut + systemd-boot - increase root mounting timeout

Try adding rootwait to the kernel parameters.

Thanks, but it doesn't work in my setup. Found this anwer while trying to figure out why, sounds exactly like my case - when emergency shell starts initramfs is already loaded from boot partition.